1. +1 TPE - https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3546713

13. I think we're in a pretty good place with SMJHL prospects feeding into SHL teams, to be completely honest. I think there's a good balance that should naturally occur, between bringing in new faces and unique users and pipelines, with bringing in players from similar teams. The obvious benefit to bringing in players from the same SMJHL teams is that you have natural scouting occurring where you have people in locker rooms able to vouch for players, and if SMJHL teams have good locker rooms, you've got some of your work done for you in knowing that these players have some familiarity and synergy and can fit in. That said, the obvious benefit to bringing in new players from different SMJHL teams is that you're building new natural scouting pipelines across the league, as well as the need to inject new faces into locker rooms to keep things from growing stale. It's very valuable, and very difficult to, only recruit players from 1-2 teams, so there needs to be some variation, but there are obvious reasons to recruit from your players' teammates to keep synergy where applicable. 187 words, +3 TPE

11. Winning the Scott Stevens back to back is the most impressive for me. There's only been one back-to-back winner since Season 18/19, which was Louise St. Martin. For some reason, defencemen just seem to be much more random than other skaters and goalies seem to rely heavily on the remainder of the team being good enough - not that good goalies aren't real, but the FHM sim engine really loves some RNG-ing a random bum goalie into a vezina in any of my non-SHL sims, so like...it feels way more team based. I think it's impressive winning the Scott Stevens, because you have to be balanced offensively and defensively theoretically - because different users have different perspectives of what the most valuable defenceman is, however anecdotally, it feels like the most valuable player is just the player with the most points or goals if someone had an insane scoring season. But honestly, as someone who has yet to win an award, maybe my opinions will change after a few seasons based on what I have or haven't won by the end of my career. Hopefully I'll remain a max earner and maybe I can even one day win this award back to back and change my mind (or root my heels deeper as a brag about the difficulty of the feat). Only time will tell. 224 words +4 TPE